Annual Report

Sometimes a single day can make or break an entire year.

At the Colorado Health Institute, November 9, 2016, was one of those days.

Hours earlier, Donald Trump had shocked the world and defied all predictions by being elected president of the United States. At CHI, we knew his election would mean profound changes for health policy. We also knew that our annual conference was coming up in less than a month, and it would have to be completely reimagined.

We got to work right away.

So how did we do? Here's a review from one attendee:

"This was by far the best conference in recent years. People were excited — they really enjoyed the timeliness of the topics and the presenters were all different."

In fact, 80 percent of attendees who took our survey rated the conference as excellent.

The performance encapsulated where CHI sought to be in 2016: an active participant in the most important health policy discussions of the moment, bringing timely, relevant, on-the-spot analysis to illuminate complicated choices.

Scenes from Hot Issues in Health Care 2016

Our 2016 Research Agenda

We undertook a 10-track research plan for 2016 in order to stay at the forefront of the myriad health issues that dominated the year. We delivered original research in each portfolio. A brief look:

CHI saw 2016 as a make-or-break year for the state’s health benefits exchange, with new pressures on insurers and urgent questions about consumer affordability. Our charge is to take complex and complicated issues and explain them in ways that policymakers and legislators can not only understand but use.